Editing Grey Knights (section)

==Pure of Purpose==
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{{topquote|The Daemonic leads to two crimes; You turn away from the path of righteousness. And, you abandon the Emperor as the object of your devotion. For the first, death is merely a just retribution. The second is a heresy so terrible that no punishment can be sufficient. [[Grimdark|Yet the search for an appropriate penalty continues, and it shall be found.]]|Codex: Daemonhunters 3rd Edition}}

Grey Knights are also the most elite of the Space Marines, and are trained in [[The 666 Rituals of Detestation|the most ball-crushingly difficult process that even veteran Space Marines consider "hard".]] Oddly enough, the fact that the Chapter is comprised completely of psykers -- an already uncommon occurrence in a given population -- means that the Grey Knights have to have a significantly ''larger'' pool of potential recruits, if only to stack the odds in the Chapter's favor that it would be able to replenish its losses with not only the toughest, but also the most mentally fit. While the most stable source of recruits are the Inquistion's Black Ships, the Grey Knights can and will recruit from any planet it deems fit, even worlds [[That guy|already used]] by ''other'' Space Marine Chapters (as one notable instance with the [[Silver Skulls]] demonstrated).

Even with such a large pool to draw from, the Chapter's recruitment trials are so notoriously difficult and deadly that it has a washout rate that even [[Fabius Bile]] would appreciate. According to some of the Codices, it's common for only about one in a ''thousand'' to pass the '''first trial''', and it only gets worse from there. Needless to say the weak of will, weak of constitution, or simply plain unlucky, get weeded out real early, but as a result only the best of the best gets picked. All told, maybe about one in a million survives to become worthy to receive the Emperor's Gift, and begin their training to become a lowly battle-brother. And this is all ''before'' they're introduced to the aforementioned 666 Rituals of Detestation. Harsh. These numbers sound like absolute [[Bullshit|bullshit]], but remember that the Imperium contains one ''million'' worlds. It is impossible to pin down the number of people in the Imperium, but numbers in the quadrillions are on the conservative end with quintillions not being out of the realm of possibility. Gee Dubs is probably [[fail|way off]] on the numbers, but perhaps only by 1:1,000 instead of 1:1,000,000. Even then that would make for possibly trillions of viable grey knight candidates, an army large enough to punch the great rift in the face until it dies. However, since Grey Knight aspirants are Beta or Alpha psykers or something close to them, ''it is absolutely bullshit''. Their numbers would be utterly unsustainable, even with normal psykers strong enough to be worth a damn. Not to mention the incredible waste of an extremely valuable asset that worlds risk being shot to pieces for not giving up. It is probably best to just utterly ignore the stupidity and assume they are careful not to waste this scarce resource. ''Unless'' the failures don't usually die and are simply mind-wiped and sent to some other organizations like the Librarius of other Chapters, Astropaths, Emperor food, etc. Except we know they aren't because the training fields of Titan are carpeted with the bones of failed aspirants. Plus most of the trials are specifically fatal by design if you fail them. Either you survive the trials and become a Grey Knight, or you die along the way. All in all it's a rather stupid attempt to make the Grey Knights seem like [[Mary Sue|''the bestest '''evar''''']] when they really didn't have to. That's the problem with trying to make [[Primaris Space Marines|super-er supersoldiers]] though; eventually you reach a point where you can't really go higher without it getting silly.

What we do know is that the Inquisition helps with recruitment, identifying psykers who show some potential and sending them on with a recommendation (as was the case for Hyperion). So the process isn't necessarily as wasteful as just sifting through all the psykers the black ships bring in for candidates young enough to be worth trying.

Once a Grey Knight initiate passes his arduous trial of [[anal circumference]], he is given the 'standard-issue' [[Liber Daemonicum]] as a commendation prize. It is a small, dinky-little booklet that contains all the guidance for the Grey Knight initiate to understand his place in things. Think of it as the Grey Knights' equivalent of a [[Space Marine]]'s [[Codex Astartes]] or the [[Imperial Guard]]'s [[Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer]], just orders of magnitude more useful than the latter.

Due to the screening process involved and the harshness of the training regimen, even the "average" Grey Knight battle-brother is much more powerful than the average [[Deathwatch]] marine of the [[Alienhunters|Ordo Xenos]], and are both more individually powerful and experienced than the [[Sisters of Battle]]. However they lack the experience and versatility of the [[Deathwatch]] who probably also marginally outnumber them, and are vastly outnumbered by the [[Sisters of Battle]], which keeps a balance of power between the three orders of the inquisition.

Uniquely enough, upon death, Grey Knights seek to be interred in The Dead Fields, a burial site on Titan some distance away from the Grey Knights' fortress. Their equipment is then recycled and passed along to the next recruits in line, and the gene seed harvested before the burial preparation. (the process of which involves writing the 666 Words of Sanctity along the fallen Knight's body) This also accounts for the relatively low amounts of Dreadnoughts owned by the Chapter, though those that do exist are rarely awoken to help with the worst situations. These Dreadnoughts may also serve as commanders, and it's more than a little bizarre that there isn't a Dreadnought named character in the codex.